Further, many home owners lost their homes due to foreclosure and this impacted the society in a negative way. The stock markets were no exception to this problem and most companies saw their stock prices dive down. This prevented them from accessing the required capital for expansion and at the same time, many individual investors lost heavily. A good percentage of Americans saw the erosion of their 401K and this

unethical practices and behavior in Accounting. Review the effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on financial statements. Identify situations that might lead to unethical practices and behavior in Accounting The company may distort its accounts in order to make its situation more attractive to current and prospective investors. It may distort its accounts believing that economic conditions will be more promising in the future or equivocating one account with another. Other

casts light upon the unethical practices carried out in the domain of marketing strategy. The paper identifies basic ethical issues explaining how customers are trapped and they lose confidence in the organizations and their marketing campaigns. Marketing is considered as the backbone of a business organization which enables it to communicate with the customers. It is an unquestioned fact that business is driven by the customers who are primary revenue

Vioxx demonstrates the unethical practice perpetuated within the business community. Typically, the pharmaceutical companies often put their financial interests above the health and safety of drug users. The paper also highlighted the unethical drug approval process implemented by FDA. The paper suggests that the government should introduce tougher drug approval process to ensure that FDA approves only the ethical products into the market. The case provides the overview of a

Over 100 of that group will be allowed to participate in a special training session that both teaches and tests medical preparation and fire suppression skills, and which will allow those who pass to gain entrance into the department (Reese 2011). Those who are not selected will be eligible to partkae in a $30 million dollar monetary award that was largely facilitated by the National Association for the Advancement

Unethical Business Research Practices What unethical research behavior was involved? The antitrust case brought by Wal-Mart and other retailers against Visa and MasterCard in the U.S. Eastern District court, was settled in 2003 for $3 billion and primarily involved a dispute concerning the efficient pricing of access to payment information, including security data that confirmed or refuted the transactional identities of cardholders (Roberds & Schreft, 2009). In their pleadings, Wal-Mart and other